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Hi guys
can you give me a valid reason why i should have a mobile
there expensive the plans are way over the top and who
wants to call any way
when ask if i have one and say no
i get this strange look from young people wanting to know
why how do you not have one how do you get emails and data
then i completey stump the kid and say what the hell is data on the phone
can you enlighten me
I think you should get one, otherwise how can the government track your every move. :devilred:
Mate, my bro in law still does not have one either. That said, having a mobile is a great life line if ever you need haul yourself out of the poop on the roadside. With smart phone technology, they are certainly more than just a phone nowadays too - hard to imagine that the sum of all knowledge is accessible through such a small thing! I guess it really depends on where you're at. If life is good without one, then don't bother. I have one and it's is glued to my hip - I like to be accessible to my staff 24/7 so it's a thing I do. Was great recently when on a cruise I was out of range of four days. Bliss for awhile.
You can buy a phone outright, one thats not locked to a carrier like Telstra etc etc and buy a pre paid sim. If you don't use it much, we have a $5 sim from Amaysim for our daughter, half the time they just send us an email saying, you have even use a 1/4 or your usage, we will just ad it onto the next bill. Lol. They're too lazy to send us a bill.
How many times did you look at your phone in those four days just quieting wishing for atleast one service bar to pop up?Quote:
Originally Posted by LaughingBeagles
You can have one of my old phones if you want
Yeah I agree, if you've never had one before Roofy and don't want one... why are you thinking about it?Quote:
Originally Posted by LaughingBeagles
Mate I felt the same as you for a long time, & was familiar with those strange looks from young people. We now only have a mobiles & no landline. Wife’s phone was around $100 new off ebay & has been totally reliable for over a year now - she needs it for work. Mine cost a bit more, bought it from Telstra (has a blue tick signifying better rural reception, & can also plug in an external antenna - worth having when travelling) & has also been good. Monthly costs are: for wifes phone - $44.90 per month for unlimited calls, texts etc (but overseas calls are expensive) this is on the Optus network through Amaysim. It’s a prepaid service, so no being locked into a contract. It’s worked well. Mine is on the Telstra network, also pre-paid, using an Aldi sim card. This works very well for me as I’m not a big phone user. I pay $30 for phone credit which will remain useable for up to 12 months (most others you pay $x which you lose if you don’t use it within a month!) You can also get $15 credit which also lasts for up to a year. The $30 lasts me around two months+. Forf phoning overseas - amazingly it costs less on Aldi to phone the UK (10c per minute) than it does to call any phone in Australia (12c per minute) & works just the same as calling on a landline.
Over time I have come to find the smartphone quite useful. I don’t tend to use it for online stuff (data), apart from the odd occasion I’ve found myself ‘geographically challenged’, when google maps has been very helpful. However little things like a calculator & camera & torch functions have been useful, mainly because they are always available in my pocket. Taking a photo & going into town to a supplier & showing them the pic , saying “I want something to fix this” has been very helpful. Certainly this can be achieved in other ways, but the convenience factor is high.
For a while I did have an ancient non-smart phone & hated using texts, it was so clumsy & difficult having to press a each key varying multiple times for each letter. Composing a brief text could take me 20 minutes! Totally different with a smartphone with a touchscreen as you have a full ‘keyboard’ - so very easy. I now use texts far more - this also helps to keep costs down as each text costs me 12c & is often sufficient.
I’m sure you will get a lot more info from younger ‘mobile generation’ folk, but I came at it from being informed by the grey nomad mob who needed to stay in touch whilst travelling & on a pension.
Hope this helps.
EDIT. I lied - Wife’s phone cost $199 a Huawei Ascend
As mudski said. There's a lot of cheap options. They do come in handy
I brought a Motorola that runs the latest android operating system for under $250 matched with is http://www.vaya.net.au/index.cfm?opt...bile&4Gsimonly I'm on the V18 as is my wife and son. We brought my mum a similar phone for mothers day this year. She doesn't have data on here plan and she's happy just to use it as a phone. She's 73.
I get that same look and a pause when I say "No I don't have Facebook"
Roofy old mate you dont need a Mobile Phone with Internet access as it is not your scene.
Being a Senior you can get a Phone Plan only for about $16 per month for when people need to contact you
I have had Mobile Phones dating back to when they were the size of a small briefcase (Last Century LOL)
They were a great tool for my business but they have become anti social and are as addictive as any Drug
I have seen half a dozen guys sitting in a Pub having a Beer but all continually checking their phones with very little conversation amongst themselves.
Now that I am retired I now have a plan without Internet access and is used for Phone calls only.